Coupling of volcano-tectonic events
Stress field development and stress transfer in volcanic regions
Mechanisms of dike intrusions
Flank instability and effects of giant landslides
Evolution of magma chambers and calderas
Modeling of above

• Project title: VOLCANOSTRESS - Stress field development and stress transfer at volcanoes. Funding period: 01/09/2003 -- 30/08/2009, Funding: DFG Emmy Noether
• Project title: CEVI - Chile earthquake-volcano interaction : A radar satellite interferometric time series analysis of volcanoes in Chile. Postdoc project with Dr. M. Motagh. Funding period: 01/01/2007 -- 30/12/2009, Funding: DFG
• Project title: VOLCANORIFT - Interaction between rift zones and unstable flanks on ocean island volcanoes. Joint project with Dr. A. Freundt, Geomar Kiel. Funding period: 01/01/2008 -- 30/12/2011, Funding: DFG
• Project title: EXUPERY - Managing Volcanic Unrest - The Volcano Fast Response System. Funding period: 01/07/2007 -- 30/09/2010, Funding: BMBF, Geotechnologien
• Project title: The 26 May 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake, its associated aftershocks and stress diffusion. Funding period: 01/06/2007 -- 30/5/2010, Funding: by BMBF within project GITEWS
• Project title: TerraSAR-X satellite radar pre launch proposal: Volcano-earthquake interaction in Nicaragua GEO0141, data. Funding period: 2006 – 2010
• Project title: ALOS ADEN AO satellite radar pre launch proposal: Understanding volcano-earthquake interaction in African Rift Valleys through space geodesy.
  Funding period: 2007 -- 2012, Funding: European Space Agency
• Project title: ENVISAT Category-1 Project: Stress transfer and volcano-earthquake interaction analyzed by ASAR interferometry. Funding period: 2006 -- 2010, Funding: European Space Agency
• Project title: ESA Category-1 Project: InSAR observations of flank deformation and giant landslides on ocean island volcanoes. Funding period: 2005 -- 2008, Funding: European Space Agency

2007 Helmholtz Initiative Award for young scientists
2007 “Most cited author award” Elsevier
2006 Hans – Cloos – Preis der Geologischen Vereinigung
2005 Emmy-Noether Grant, German Science Foundation
2002 Dissertation mit Auszeichnung
Mehrere Posterpreise

1. Walter TR, Wang R, Luehr B-G, Wassermann J, Behr Y, Parolai S, Anggraini A, Günther E, Sobiesiak M, Grosser H, Wetzel H-U, Milkereit C, Sri Brotopuspito K, Prih Harjadi, Zschau J (2008) The 26 May 2006 magnitude 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake south of Mt. Merapi volcano: Did lahar deposits amplify ground shaking and thus lead to the disaster?, G-cubed: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 9, Q05006, DOI:10.1029/2007GC001810.
2. Walter TR (2008) Facilitating dyke intrusions into ring-faults. Book chapter in: Caldera Volcanism, 10 - Analysis, Modelling and Response (eds. J Gottsmann and J Marti). Elsevier Special Pub on Calderas, 336 pp, ISBN: 978-0-444-53165-0.
3. Ruch J, Anderssohn J, Walter TR, Motagh M (2008) Caldera-scale inflation of the Lazufre volcanic area, South America, evidenced by InSAR. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 174 (4), 337-344, DOI:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.03.009.
4. Manconi A, Walter TR, Amelung F, How mechanical layering affects volcano deformation. Geophysical Journal International, 170 (2), 952-958, DOI:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03449.x.
5. Amelung F, Yun S-H, Walter TR, Segall P (2007) Stress control of deep rift intrusion at Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii. Science, 316 (5827), 1026-1030, DOI: 10.1126/science.1140035.
6. Walter TR, Amelung F (2007) Volcanic eruptions following M≥9 megathrust earthquakes: Implications for the Sumatra-Andaman volcanoes. Geology, 35(6), 539–542, DOI: 10.1130/G23429A.1.
7. Walter TR (2007) How a tectonic earthquake may awake silent volcanoes: Stress triggering during the 1996 earthquake–eruption sequence at the Karymsky Volcanic Group, Kamchatka. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 264 (3-4), 347-359, DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.006.
8. Walter TR, Wang R, Zimmer M, Ratdomopurbo A, Grosser H (2007) Volcanic activity influenced by tectonic earthquakes: static versus dynamic stress triggering at Mt. Merapi, Indonesia. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (5), L05304, DOI:10.1029/2006GL028710.
9. Walter TR, Amelung F (2006) Volcano-earthquake interaction at Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B05204, DOI:10.1029/2005JB003861.
10. Walter TR, Acocella V, Neri M, Amelung F (2005) Feedback processes between magmatic events and flank movement at Mount Etna (Italy) during the 2002–2003 eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B10205, DOI:10.1029/2005JB003688.